Our Only Choice is to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission

Nov 10, 2011 2:17 PMPublicPageviews 152 0

Greenhouse gas emission is becoming a worrying concern for all of us and it gradually but surely is destroying our eco-balance and effecting global temperatures and climate changes. If it keeps continuing at the rate it is going, the days won't be far that the lasting adverse effects of greenhouse gas emission would begin to threaten the very existence of our society. It has become an issue of prime importance to be analyzed in depth: the roots, the causes, the effects, and the remedies.

If we're willing to educate ourselves in the right way, take the necessary steps, and get our leaders to address this issue with a lot more importance, then we could slowly start curbing the ill effects of greenhouse gas emission. While this may sound like a simplistic view, it is achievable over a period of time with the right amount of effort.

Petroleum emissions top the list of major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. The innumerable automobiles on the roads these days -- the cars, the trucks, the buses, the vans -- all of them cumulatively emit large amounts of greenhouse gas, creating massive imbalances in our ecology. No doubt, owning a vehicle has become a big necessity for the modern man, right from ensuring his independence to maintaining a job. One car per person has become a norm for the average person in a modern economy while owning two or more cars, a luxury and status symbol.

One of the best ways to curb greenhouse gas emission is to be open to alternative sources of energy. Solar energy, for instance, can be a good source of alternative energy. While this may sound like a superficial solution on the surface, nothing can be far from the truth. It will take some time for this method to catch up; it would require a lot of sacrifices from our end individually and collectively as a society. We would have to adapt to new ways of doing things as opposed to the conventional ways, but it will bring in the desired results.

It may sound trivial if one chooses to drive a hybrid or some other energy efficient car for the sake of curbing greenhouse gas emission, but never underestimate the power of ONE. ONE has the power of multiplying into TWO and then FOUR and so on and so forth, until the trend catches up and becomes a norm. All these will have to be backed up by leaders as they're the ones who can make effective decisions. They're the people who have the power to regulate the corporations.

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